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Welcome to the club! I often wonder how many ‘self-actualizing’ people out there are simply asking for the same kind of old-fashioned self-responsibility from everyone else that they demand for themselves.

Libertarians (large or small ‘L’) are often just as deeply concerned with the welfare of others as they are with their own. More and more people are discovering that there are more ways to solve things than government-centric pundits tend to admit, and most of them leave people with a whole lot more self-respect.

well, as i’ve said to ppl before, i do have a political orientation (vector), but its magnitude is minimal. unlike most ppl i don’t get worked up over politics much but, ppl should know where i’m coming from!

matt, true, but group selection is weak compared to individual selection being a bit older than you i’ve had friends who have worked for personal stints working for gov., corp. and small & medium sized businesses, and the last is in a different category in terms of how hard you have to really work toward economic productivity. of course, it depends on the corporation and size….

There is a big difference between planning a market and planning for a market. One produces for a market by receiving inputs from the market and externalizing some decision making to the market. The other does not. Wal-Mart does not make it’s own microwaves, much less mine the minerals necessary to make them and educate the engineers necessary to design them.

In a stateless world, people using heavy encryption would anonymously own shares of trusts, which would amount to much the same thing as a corporation.

I thought the question about homelessness and natural selection was weird. I answered “Disagree” because homelessness is just so rare that even if it were 100% genetic it still wouldn’t be “explained” by natural selection – like saying that dwarfism is explained by natural selection.

I’m a liberal-leaning centrist. Normally on this sort of thing I come out a little more socially permissive and a little more economically permissive, an exact economic moderate and a social libertarian.